drought

The country’s hydroelectric facilities are in danger due to the worst drought in decades, therefore Ecuador is going to institute nationwide nighttime blackouts and teleworking in the public sector, the administration said on Tuesday. Due “to...

The severe drought that has impacted large swathes of Southern Africa is threatening the lives of hundreds of thousands of children in the six worst-affected countries, UNICEF said today. This includes more than 270,000 children who...

Authorities announced on Monday that there are indications of an improvement in the water levels, which will boost the number of ships permitted to pass through the drought-stricken Panama Canal each day. Although the interoceanic passage...

The Panama Canal delivered $2.5 billion to the national treasury for last year’s operations, the government announced Monday, despite record-low water levels that curtailed ship transits. About six percent of world marine trade goes through the...

Aaron Tartakovsky is sipping a beer that has a golden colour and a flavor that is mildly fruity, much like many others. However, it has a peculiar component: recycled sewage from a San Francisco tower. As...

A new report released today by the Federal Ministry of Health & Human Services, WHO and UNICEF suggests that an estimated 43,000 excess deaths might have occurred in 2022 in Somalia resulting from a deepening drought...

Spain is rethinking how it uses its water resources, which are primarily used to irrigate agriculture, in the face of a historic drought and the threat of desertification. “We must be extremely careful and responsible instead...

Farmers in Iraqi Kurdistan who want to irrigate their crops risk having their economic lifeblood cut off when Lake Dukan’s waters decrease and Iranian dams upstream stop the flow. Farming close to the lovely lake is...

More than 1.4 million children in Somalia, nearly half of the country’s under-five population, are likely to suffer from acute malnutrition due to the ongoing drought that has left 4.1 million people on the brink. According...

An estimated 13 million people in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia are facing severe hunger as the Horn of Africa experiences its worst drought in decades, the World Food Programme (WFP) said Tuesday. Three consecutive rainy seasons...